UK Foreign Direct Investment (% of GDP)
Money invested into UK businesses from abroad each year (foreign direct investment), as a share of GDP.
0.9%
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1970 to 2025
Source: World Bank · FDI net inflows, % of GDP, annual (sourced from IMF balance-of-payments data).
UK Foreign Direct Investment (% of GDP) in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In the UK, the foreign direct investment rose by 1.3pp in 2025, from −0.3% in 2024.
It is the highest reading since 2022.
Over the past five years it has ranged from −0.3% in 2024 to 5.8% in 2020.
Its average since 1970 is 2.8%, and the latest reading is below that.
The UK is 31st of 40 countries in our Foreign Direct Investment by Country ranking.
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- Source
- World Bank
- Series
- See the citation below
- Frequency
- Annual
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not applicable, annual data
- Latest observation
- 2025
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
Data refreshed 2026-11-06. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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